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The Goatherd gathered on a lovely Friday in June to discuss The Goldfinch, the epic bestseller by Donna Tartt. Many a great coversation was had until late in the evening, when we finally decided to break it up and continue […]
Book club meets infrequently enough that Sarah has been able to particpate in the last two gatherings. For this October edition, she was the proctor for Tenth of December by George Saunders, which, on Jan. 3, 2013, was called, in […]
Sarah requested a revival of book club during her visit, so we all read Wiliam Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, and Greg led the discussion. All were well edified, and well fed, too. We started with Greg’s pickled onions and […]
Somehow, someway, book club keeps holding on. This time, we didn’t even have to read a book before gathering for a literary evening — and good eats and drinks. We read ‘The Glass Menagerie’ aloud. Alas, it got too late […]
After what can really only be called maternity leave from book club, we met again for the first time since before Samantha was born. To make things easy on everyone, especially the new parents, we chose a children’s book: The […]
Our book club met at Irene’s to discuss Tom’s pick: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. Since the book was set in 1974, Irene made an aspic. Of course she did. Related posts: Goatherd Book Club: The Heart […]
A few years after I spent the summer reading the annotated version of Lolita, we embarked on a study of a different kind. We read the book Goatherd style. The gathering, this time, was at Kate and Peter’s house. They […]
The Goatherd book club gathered at Sour Cherry Farm for its discussion on “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers. Because Boo has been a fan of the book for most of her life, she was invited as […]
They eat a lot of cabbage in “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.” We checked, and the word is mentioned 15 times. John Singer, our hero, if you can call him that, hates it. “Singer sat at the table three […]
The Goatherd book club is reading “Heart is a Lonely Hunter” this round, and Greg and I will be hosting dinner. We thought it might be fun to meet up at Carson’s grave and toast her great talent. We found, […]
Kris and Tom hosted the book club’s meeting about “On the Road,” and Rory led an eye-opening discussion, wherein the club members revealed their own “On the Road” experiences, and discussed the Deans they’ve known over the years. And some […]
As might be expected, our book club has turned into a sort of cooking club, too. Each meeting, the hosts try to match the meal with the book, whether through food mentioned it it, or inspired by a region. Kris […]
Sour Cherry Farm hosted “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, the Goat Herd book club’s most recent selection. We had a lively discussion about savages and utopia, of expectations and dreams lost. And of course we laughed. A lot. Related […]
I haven’t before reported on book club. but CynDee went so over the top with matching food to theme that I finally broke down. I simply couldn’t help taking photos. To go with “A Room with a View,” set in […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
